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Nicks is back in top ethereal form

Sunday, May 6, 2001

STEVIE NICKS

Trouble in Shangri-La(Reprise)

Stevie Nicks may have missed the Lilith Fair, but she makes up for lost time on her first new album in seven years, ``Trouble in Shangri-La.''Sarah McLachalan, Dixie Chick Natalie Maines, Macy Gray and Sheryl Crow all lend a hand on this solid if unspectacular work that eases right into Nicks' canon of dreamy songs.

Crow is the special collaborator. She sings and plays on six tracks, co-produced five and wrote one, the lovely acoustic ballad ``It's Only Love.'' The other women prove equally simpatico vocalists, especially husky Nicks-soundalike Gray on the acoustic guitar-laced ``Bombay Sapphires.'' A few guys pitch in as well, including former paramour Lindsey Buckingham and several of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers.

While some of the best songs here have copyrights from the '70s - the gauzy ``Planets of the Universe'' and the Fleetwood Mac-esque ``Sorcerer'' - the return of Nicks' throaty vocals and witchy, windswept imagery are most welcome.

SARAH RODMAN